Quotes About Author

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor.

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

We have had 10 years of bad governance, and we may not recover if another bad government is elected.

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.

I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.

For many years Madam Walker was just a little footnote in history. As a woman who made haircare products, she was really consigned to something trivial.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.